Local first storage for lawyers
Work with no wifi and no worry.
Grape keeps a matter file in a database on your own machine, so the day before a hearing a dead connection changes nothing about what you can open.
Writing, reading, organising, drawing and recording all work offline
You pick where the database file sits
Export any note, or the whole library, as Markdown, HTML or PDF
Run the AI locally through Ollama or LM Studio if you prefer
No account to start
Download, open, write. Accounts only matter for the paid plans.
Your choice of AI provider
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama and more.
Export whenever you want
Markdown, HTML or PDF, one note at a time or the whole library.
You pick where the file sits
Point the database at any folder on your machine, and move it later.
The plane, the tunnel, the cabin
Writing, search, drawing and recording all work with no connection.
Local models if you want them
Run the AI through Ollama or LM Studio and nothing leaves the machine.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for lawyers.
Find the point without rereading the file
Search by the issue rather than the document name and get the note that covers it.
Attendance notes written from the call
Record where you are permitted to, and work from an accurate transcript instead of memory.
Keep research and reasoning together
PDFs, extracts and your own analysis live in the same note, in the same matter folder.
In practice
What that looks like for lawyers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
New matter
One folder, one chronology note, and everything else linked to it.
Research
Keep the PDF and your extract in the same note so the reasoning survives.
Before a hearing
Ask your notes for the chronology and the open points.
The rest of the app
What Else Grape Does
Every part of the app is built around the same idea: keep what you write, and hand it back when you need it.
AI Agent
Chat that reads your library and can act on it
Open
Memory
The agent remembers what you tell it
Open
Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
Open
Voice and transcription
Meetings and lectures become searchable text
Open
Web clipper
Save any page from Chrome into a note
Open
Share to Grape
A page from the share sheet becomes a note
Open
Search it how you remember.
Attendance notes, research, correspondence summaries and the point you spotted at 6pm, in a local library that answers questions about your own file.